Muscatine

John was in the fertilized egg business. He had several
 hundred young layers (hens),
 called 'pullets,' and ten roosters to fertilize the
 eggs. He kept records, and
 any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was
 replaced. This took a
 lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells and
 attached them to his
 roosters. Each bell had a different tone, so he could
 tell from a
 distance, which rooster was performing. Now, he could sit
 on the porch and fill
 out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.
 
 
 
 John's favourite rooster, old Butch, was a very
 fine specimen, but one
 morning he noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung at
 all! When he went to
 investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing
 pullets,
 bells-a-ringing, but
 the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, could run for
 cover. To John's
 amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it
 couldn't ring. He'd sneak
 up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.
 
 John was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the
 Renfrew County Fair
 and he became an overnight sensation among the judges. The
 result was the
 judges not only awarded old Butch the No Bell Piece Prize
 but they also awarded
 him the Pulletsurprise as well.

 Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making. Who else
 but a politician
 could figure out how
 to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet by
 being the best at
 sneaking up on the populace and
 screwing them when they weren't paying attention.
 Vote carefully
 next time, the bells are not always audible.